xen PVonHVM: move shared_info to MMIO before kexec
Currently kexec in a PVonHVM guest fails with a triple fault because the new kernel overwrites the shared info page. The exact failure depends on the size of the kernel image. This patch moves the pfn from RAM into MMIO space before the kexec boot. The pfn containing the shared_info is located somewhere in RAM. This will cause trouble if the current kernel is doing a kexec boot into a new kernel. The new kernel (and its startup code) can not know where the pfn is, so it can not reserve the page. The hypervisor will continue to update the pfn, and as a result memory corruption occours in the new kernel. One way to work around this issue is to allocate a page in the xen-platform pci device's BAR memory range. But pci init is done very late and the shared_info page is already in use very early to read the pvclock. So moving the pfn from RAM to MMIO is racy because some code paths on other vcpus could access the pfn during the small window when the old pf...
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